The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-09
Notes and Opinions.

LORD SALISBURY intimates that he
is preparing heavy dose of coercion
for Ireland.
GENERAL J. j. FINLEY has been APP
pointed by the governor of Florida to
succeed Senator Jones.
ellis SERENE FATNEss " is the latest
title given President Cleveland by dis
gusted democratic stalwarts.
EIGHTY-Two republicans in the Ohio
legislature declare their preference for
John Sherman for president.
SENATOR ALLISON, said to be
Blaine's present preference for the next
presidential nomination, is an Ohio man.
THE great Prussian historiographer,
Won Treitschke, says that whether war
comes in few weeks or years, it is in
evitable.
THE New York Times (mugwump)
tells the New York Evening Post (mug-
wump) that its favorite role is that of
"the meddling old fool"
RUTLAND and Rockingham voted to
adopt the town system of schools, and
Randolph, Grand Isle, Warren and
Waitsfield voted not to return to the
district system.
IT is now settled beyond question
that the United States senate next win
ter will certainly contain thirty-nine
republicans, including Rddleberger,
and thirty-seven democrats.
The senate confirmed Trotter (col-
ored) for recorder of deeds in the Dis
trict of Columbia, thirty to eleven-only
three republicans voting nay. The dis
trict democrats are disguised.
EVEN the scandalized attorney
general has able vouchers for his hon
esty among his former republican col
leagues in the senate. "-Sprinqfeld Re
publican. Then so much the worse for
them.
ITALY has been for ages a favorite
field for the display of earthquakes and
of volcanic phenomena-no less than
three hundred ninety visitations of this
kind being on record there during the
present century.
THE liquor-dealers say that they are
trying to "improve and elevate their
business. But there has been no APP
preciable improvement in the quality
of the drunkards they have turned out
of late. Tribune.
THE theory of Henry George that
"the saloon is social need which
should be maintained" is merely the
dogma of dreamer. However, it
points the way of progress towards
poverty .-Philodelphid Press.
A MAN who has been sentenced in
Missouri to ninety-nine years imprison-
ment hopes to get out in time to wit
ness the laying of the cornerstone of
the million-dollar Grant monument in
New York .-SprinQfeld Union.
THE casualties by the Italian earth
quake are less than were reported. The
official list of earthquake victims place
the dead at GAG and the in iured at 452.
Twenty thousand persons are homeless.
The material losses are estimated at
$4,000 900.
IN France the cry of revanche " is
assuming deep cultural tone and the
word "glory" is spelled with capital
letters. There is only one reason which
prevents Frenchman from likening
Bismarck to the devil, and that is he
doesn't believe in any devil.-I'ribune.
THE towns of Rutland, West Rut-
land, Brandon, Fair Haven and Dandy
were carried last week by the Knights
of Labor The Rutland Herald init.
mates that if the five hundred fifty
voters who failed to vote had come out
the result in Rutland, at least, would
have been different.
THERE is no man whose place in this
world cannot be filled. Whether he is
the greatest statesman, the keenest
business man or the humblcst coal
shoveler, there is always somebody tC
slip into his shoes. The average o.
human greatness is always main
tained.-7roy Telegram,
THE railroad commission having in
vestigated the fatal accident to Con
ductor Southworth on the Passumpsit
railroad, conclude theirreport as follows
"That it was the result of some loss o
grip upon the ladder, as Conductor
Southworth was going down to or climb
ing up from the coal-car, or by slipping
upon the snow or ice at one end of it
whereby he fell between the cars, wa
drawn under the wheels and killed
There is no fault attributable to any ont
for the fatal accident
THE senatorial contest in the New
Jersey legislature was suddenly termi
mated last week by the election of Rufus
Blodgett, democrat, by republican
votes We do not quite like the actor
of the republicans, though with then
it was evidently a choice of evils.
is reported that the senator-elect ha'
agreed to stand by republican senators
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